MacOS – Toggling a file’s “hidden” status

If you are looking to install some common command line tools which are not included in Mac OS X, you might have some success in the Rudix program, which offers pre-compiled versions of many utilities in a ready-to-install DMG/pkg format.

Rudix: The hassle-free way to get Unix programs on Mac OS X

Aliases are used as a shortcuts - sipmple commands that expand to longer ones. If you need to pass an argument to it, you would need to create a function. Maybe try something like:

reminder () { automator -i $1 add_reminder.workflow' }

Here $1 will expand to the first argument that you've passed to the function. So you'll to do something like:

reminder "Buy potatoes"

P.S: I haven't tried it, since I don't have zsh with me right now, so if it breaks, give me a shout.